# wye vs wynn

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### wye
*noun · IPA /ˈwaɪ/ · frequency rank #38,694*
The name of the Latin script letter Y/y.

### wynn
*noun · IPA /wɪn/ · frequency rank #25,260*
A letter of the Old English alphabet, ƿ, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-02.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wye-vs-wynn